Siddique Malik | US, Pakistan strange political bedfellows

12:47 AM,
Nov. 8, 2013

Siddique Malik

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Siddique Malik
Special to The Courier-Journal

A war can produce strange bedfellows. During World War II, troops of the now defunct Soviet Union was allied with the West. The U.S.S.R. liberated survivors of Hitler's concentration camps. If full trust - albeit, temporary - between these allies had not existed, would their plan to defeat the enemy in various theaters of operations and then regroup as victors have succeeded?

In the American-led international war-like struggle against terrorism, the army-controlled Pakistani establishment is not behaving as properly as even the Soviets once did. And Washington pretends that Pakistan ...